For Labour to win it must ditch its Brexit renegotiation deal
Robert Hoskins says the complexion of Labour’s Brexit offer in its upcoming manifesto for December’s election is crucial, and urges the imminent Clause 5 meeting to drop the fence-sitting and go for...
View ArticleNo IndyRef2 without a confirmatory vote
Robert Hoskins urges the Scottish Labour leadership not to endorse a second independence referendum without at the very least requiring any final deal to be subject to a confirmatory vote. So...
View ArticleA dose of reality should keep us in union
Robert Hoskins seeks, but fails so far to find, an honest appraisal from independence supporters of what the coronavirus support package means to many Scots, and hopes that with new leadership Labour...
View ArticlePartygate: launchpad for the next Labour government?
Robert Hoskins takes a close look at polling around both Labour and independence in the wake of the Partygate scandal, and considers what it all might mean for Scotland. Eight weeks of relentless...
View ArticleLabour can heal the Holyrood/Westminster rift
Robert Hoskins (@hoski67) of Cathcart CLP says after years of the SNP driving wedges, one of the biggest benefits of electing Labour MPs and MSPs will be to heal the unnecessary rifts between the...
View ArticleSturgeon’s Law would kill the independence dream
Robert Hoskins reflects on the ten years since the independence referendum, the reality of where the SNP now find themselves, and how their own logic effectively tells us independence is impossible....
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